Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Easter



The aftermath, complete with green mouth.

Sonograms... finally!











Well, here's four months worth of sonograms of the baby. I've been meaning to post them long before now, but it took me this long to hook up the scanner again and get my butt in gear. I think that the last picture from today is my favorite. Its a face first view of the baby with his or her hands up in little fists. Baby is 2 pounds, 9 ounces with about three months to go. That is a gain of almost a pound a half from the last sonogram when he/she was 1 pound 5 ounces and up from 15 ounces estimated from the second sonogram. yep, we still don't want to know about the sex until at least June 15th!

Sunday, March 16, 2008

The Ides of March


Yeah, the cake says it all. It was last Saturday.

The 1953 CJ3B and the little helper









Well, Melissa finally allowed me to get a project jeep again. Its a 1953 CJ3B which I have wanted for years now, ever since I fell in love with all old jeeps. There isn't a jeep sitting alongside the road or in a barn or field that I don't wish that I could give a home to. But, one at a time and here's one more saved from the scrapper. It was delivered from New Jersey by a couple of shippers and jeep afficionados like myself. The little helper is fascinated sitting in the driver's seat, though the seat has been removed by now. Everything needs a good tear down and rebuild, but it'll make me very happy for years to come getting my hands dirty and the little helper's hands too.

Sunday, March 02, 2008

23 months!


Walter, fresh after an attempt at giving the little sheepdog a haircut.

Snow, snow, go away...

Here in Maine, we've had a record snowfall for this winter. I heard on the news the other day that northern Maine has received 145 inches of snow so far, which was considered pretty impressive for an area that isn't getting its snow from elevation or lake effect. This was before the last snowstorm of this Saturday which dumped about a foot here in south central Maine. 15-18 inches was forecast for northern parts. This is so far, the third snowiest winter since records have been kept. Meanwhile I'm running out places to shovel the snow. The snow is up to and over the second window panes on the porch after I shoveled the roof off today. The six foot high fence at the side of the driveway isn't even visible in some places. Pretty impressive, especially after last winter when we were complaining about the lack of snow for the state.




Our little crawlway to the back porch.






Here, you can't see out the windows anymore. The snow is higher than the pictures make it look.